UPDATE 1-Vontobel confident for 2016 after net profit, dividend beat

February 11, 2016 6:44 AM

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ZURICH Feb 11 Swiss private bank Vontobel Holding proposed raising its 2015 dividend by a fifth to 1.85 Swiss franc ($1.90) per share, above estimates for 1.77 francs in a Reuters poll of analysts, and said client assets had grown in January versus last year's average.

In full-year results, Zurich-based Vontobel posted net profit for 2015 of 180.1 million francs, up by a third and beating the average poll estimate of 169 million francs.